American Standard Version of 1901
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For, {Isaiah 40:6 ff.}All flesh is as grass,And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass.The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
But the {Greek: saying.}word of the Lord abideth for ever.And this is the {Greek: saying.}word of good tidings which was {See verse 12.}preached unto you.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the {Greek: good tidings. See marginal note on Matthew 4:23.}gospel.
Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.
Why do ye not {Or, know}understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who {Or, have}had before hoped in Christ:
and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the {Greek: cause.}author of eternal salvation;
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.